Tuesday, May 13, 2014

A `Rocky Horror Picture Show' joke worth waiting for

Dude waited five years to make this allusion happen according to the time stamps. Epic.

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I guess that the 12 people that are pathetic enough to admit that they went every week to those ridiculous midnight showings of this truly stupid, awful movie will find that funny.
The rest of us will go - MEH!

Just think how much money they made for Lou Adler, the jerk that owned the rights to it & kept it off home video for a decade because he was one of the last Hollywood troglodytes that believed there was more money in theaters than home video.

@Joseph Finn: Adler only allowed it in midnight shows for years. Period!
Anyone who wanted to see it without all the insanity around it couldn't.
Now if you want to watch it with friends, you can go to someone's house with a really giant screen & watch there.
He's made way more money off home video than before.

Wow, I didn't realize there was so much resentment for a guy making money off of people enjoying a movie (that by the way, was released it on home video in 1990; seriously, how much control do you think Adler, as the movie's producer, not the distributor, had over that?). Yep, he totally kept people from seeing it. (And it was 20th Century Fox who came up with the midnight showings idea, not Adler.)

Sorry Finn, but every article I ever read said it was Adler that prevented the home video release.
He owned all the rights. Period!
And there were a lot of them back in the 1980s, the fans were furious they couldn't buy a VHS copy of it.

@Bruce L: Unfortunately, I don't have copies of 1980s Weekly Variety, which is where I read that at the library.
Adler was blamed, not 20th, as he OWNS the movie! 20th was merely the hired help, distributing it. Occasionally the distributors get blamed for what the rights owners won't permit.

There a number of movies never released [at least officially] to home video because a single individual owns all the rights to it.
An example is the 1956 version of "1984". Before it was remade for a 1984 remake, a Chicagoan, Marvin J. Rosenblum, who was the exec producer of the remake. He owns all movie & TV rights to both films. After he died, the rights were inherited by his unrelentingly litigious widow, who will sue anyone & everyone who even references "1984" is anything, without paying up.

A weirder example id "WKRP IN Cincinnati" as it's home video release was held up for years & even then, when released, stock music has replaced the original music because they can't get the video rights to use it without paying enormous sums.
I have a dollar store DVD of the Beverly Hillbillies without the music written by Flatt & Scruggs.

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